Includes index

1955 : Fats Domino ; Ray Charles ; LaVern Baker ; Hank Ballard and the Midnighters ; Bo Diddley ; The sound of 1955: Bill Haley and the Comets -- 1956 : The Platters ; Little Richard ; Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers ; The Five Satins ; Carl Perkins ; The sound of 1956: Elvis Presley -- 1957 : Jerry Lee Lewis ; Pat Boone ; Jimmie Rodgers ; Paul Anka ; The Diamonds ; The sound of 1957: Chuck Berry -- 1958 : Buddy Holly ; Danny and the Juniors ; The Champs ; The Everly Brothers ; The sound of 1958: Novelty Records -- 1959 : The Coasters ; Jackie Wilson ; Lloyd Price ; The Crests ; Frankie Avalon, Fabian, and Bobby Rydell ; The sound of 1959: Bobby Darin -- 1960 : The Drifters ; Dion and the Belmonts ; Roy Orbison ; Connie Francis ; Brenda Lee ; The sound of 1960: Chubby Checker and the twist -- 1961 : Sam Cooke ; Gary "U.S." Bonds ; Neil Sedaka ; Ricky Nelson ; The Shirelles ; The sound of 1961: Del Shannon -- 1962 : The Phil Spector sound ; Gene Pitney ; Bobby Vee ; Gene Chandler ; Rock instrumentals ; The sound of 1962 : The Four Seasons -- 1963 : The Chiffons ; Lesley Gore ; Jay and the Americans ; The Kingsmen ; The Motown sound ; The sound of 1963: The Beach Boys -- 1964 : Car-crash songs ; The Supremes ; The British invasion ; Dave Clark Five ; The sound of 1964: The Beatles -- 1965 : The Byrds ; The Temptations ; James Brown ; Bob Dylan ; Herman's Hermits ; The sound of 1965: The Rolling Stones -- 1966 : Folk-rock ; Gary Lewis and the Playboys ; The Mamas and the Papas ; The Lovin' Spoonful ; The Four Tops ; The sound of 1966: Simon and Garfunkel -- 1967 : The Young Rascals ; Aretha Franklin ; The Association ; The Turtles ; The Monkees ; Donovan ; The Jefferson Airplane : The sound of 1967: the Doors -- 1968 : The Grateful Dead ; Jimi Hendrix ; Cream ; Sly and the Family Stone ; Tommy James and the Shondells ; The sound of 1968: Otis Redding -- 1969 : Janis Joplin ; The Who ; Creedence Clearwater Revival ; The Fifth Dimension ; The Archies and the sound of bubblegum music ; The sound of 1969: Blood, Sweat and Tears -- 1970 : Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young ; Santana ; Joe Cocker ; The Guess Who ; The Jackson 5 : The band ; The sound of 1970: Chicago -- 1971 : Three Dog Night ; Cat Stevens ; James Taylor ; The sound of 1971: Carole King -- 1972 : Carly Simon ; The Moody Blues ; Bread ; Don McLean ; Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention ; The sound of 1972: Alice Cooper -- 1973 : Beatles reprise ; Jim Croce ; The Allman Brothers Band ; Bette Midler ; Pink Floyd ; The sound of 1973: Stevie Wonder -- 1974 : Gladys Knight and the Pips ; John Denver ; Jethro Tull ; Grand Funk Railroad ; Barry White ; The sound of 1974: Elton John -- 1975 : Linda Ronstadt ; The Doobie Brothers ; David Bowie ; The Eagles ; The Bay City Rollers ; The sound of 1975: Led Zeppelin -- 1976 : Kiss ; ABBA ; Boz Scaggs ; Electric Light Orchestra ; Bob Seger ; The sound of 1976: Peter Frampton -- 1977 : Rod Stewart ; Steve Miller Band ; Steely Dan ; Barry Manilow ; The sound of 1977: Fleetwood Mac -- 1978 : Bruce Springsteen ; Billy Joel ; Meat Loaf ; Earth, Wind and Fire ; The Village People ; Jackson Browne ; The sound of 1978: The Bee Gees -- 1979 : Elvis Costello ; Blondie ; Cheap Trick ; The Cars ; The Knack ; The sound of 1970: Donna Summer -- 1980 : The future

Biographies of rock stars and rock groups are arranged by year from 1955 to 1980

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